Milano Design Week. 8 things we recommend after seeing them, day 6
For this Design Week weekend, we suggest a tour with minimal lines: between historic brands and Fuorisalone newcomers, hidden buildings and design temples.
Salone del Mobile and Fuorisalone 2026
For this Design Week weekend, we suggest a tour with minimal lines: between historic brands and Fuorisalone newcomers, hidden buildings and design temples.
The people and the too many people, the buildings never open to the public, the colorful installations and the rationalist Milan of the great architects of the 20th century. But also the details you may not have noticed: here are the best photos taken by Domus at this year's Design Week.
The two brands turn an apparently eccentric encounter into a coherent dialogue between industry, material, and process. More than a collaboration, it is a methodological convergence that puts making back at the center.
Gio Ponti’s secret hotel, a medieval theatre, and installations where there’s finally no trace of bad AI: these are the places to go during Milan Design Week if, like you, by 2026 FOMO has gone out of fashion.
At Teatro Arsenale, Estùdio Campana's installation for Art de Vivre transforms rugs into a contemplative experience far from the noise of Fuorisalone. The designer tells Domus why it is now urgent to look to nature as a form of healing.
Three venues, three visions, one platform: Superstudio Design 2026 expands the Fuorisalone beyond the district model, spanning international installations, ideal cities, and emerging experimentation, reframing the role of design across a city-wide narrative.
Nike and Gucci show in different ways what the Milanese week has really become: a device where design is on the verge of extinction. In between, many attempts and few truly convincing visions.
During Design Week, you also need a map of places to pause. Between hidden gardens, inhabitable micro-hotels, oversized carousels, and installations that speak of a return to nature, here are the addresses we recommend.
Not just to look at: at Base Milano, design gets active. Studio Smarin's modular system transforms the Ground Hall on the ground floor into a collective space between experimentation, economic sustainability and new forms of sharing.